Friday, March 17, 2006

New Screencast of Douglas Engelbart's Augment System, First System with Hyperlinks, Groupware, Outlining, and More

I've created a screencast showing Douglas Engelbart's ground breaking Augment software. This screencast takes viewers through many of Augment's amazing features, first implemented in the late 1960s, including hypertext, groupware, outlining, and more. If you have ever wondered what Augment looked like, and how it was the first to implement such features as email, then you should enjoy this screencast.

The screencast uses a Java terminal emulator to sign into Douglas Engelbart's last-existing copy of Augment, running on an emulated PDP-10. It shows the following features: